The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 232
They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi.
Who acts: gypsies, false princess · What happens: pretend, believe, put, bring · To what, where: ladies, misfortune, rich dresses
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gypsies, false princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 pretended | advmod |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 believe | mark |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ladies | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ladies | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ladies | det |
| 10 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pretended | obl |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 put | advmod |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pretended | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 16 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princess | amod |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dresses | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dresses | amod |
| 20 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 princess | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Zizi | case |
| 25 | Zizi | Zizi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | gypsies = gypsy | the ladies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | gypsies = gypsy not said here | misfortune | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | gypsies = gypsy not said here | on the false princess; once property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on princess=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the false princess not said here | the rich dresses | for Zizi | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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